LovingLife123

LovingLife123

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  1. What constitutes an essential employee?

    LovingLife123 replied to guest1143647's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I found out today that essential personnel is more broad than I thought. Construction companies are apparently

  2. Public Making Masks

    LovingLife123 replied to LovingLife123's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Let me say, I appreciate people wanting to help. But it highlights a point that people don’t grasp airborne transmission. And how this aerosolizes. We have to highlight exactly what the N95 does...

  3. Acute COVID, What We're Seeing

    LovingLife123 replied to MunoRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We have really seen an influx of critical COVIDs in the last week. I think the next two weeks will be worse. When these patients go bad, they seem to go bad quickly. We’ve had a couple that have...

  4. Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    LovingLife123 replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don’t disagree with you, it’s just what my hospital system has implemented due to the shortage of PPE which directly relates to the OPs question. We are also being told to reuse our PPE....

  5. School Pretty Much Canceled Clinical

    LovingLife123 replied to Futurenurse7321's topic in General Students

    OP, when you actually start working as a nurse you will understand. We have no students at our hospital right now. We have no visitors. Feel sorry for the families that can’t come up and say...

  6. Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    LovingLife123 replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I’m just saying that at my hospital we have different levels of risk, therefore different levels of PPE. With there being a shortage, they have evaluated the greatest threat to healthcare workers...

  7. Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    LovingLife123 replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    But there are different levels as to what requires the N95 mask at this time. In certain cases a surgical mask is appropriate and others a N95

  8. Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    LovingLife123 replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    No, you don’t refuse care. These people didn’t ask for this and they are entitled to care. I will end up at some point with COVID. I’m healthy enough to handle

  9. Abandonment

    LovingLife123 replied to Nurseynurse1418's topic in General Nursing

    Why weren’t you able to give report? You were able to drive home, correct? I get you were sick, it happens, but they got you a replacement. Give some type of

  10. Coronavirus-Are we ready to talk about rationing care?

    LovingLife123 replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    That’s what they said we would go here. We would pull out and repurpose old

  11. Coronavirus-Are we ready to talk about rationing care?

    LovingLife123 replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    They specifically said that our state had a bunch of older vents in storage and they would pull them out and use those if needed. I put state has more than 100 vents!! I live in a major metro area...

  12. Coronavirus-Are we ready to talk about rationing care?

    LovingLife123 replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Our governor assured us today that there are plenty of vents available. He said they passed something in 2018 to ensure that no matter what, plenty of vents are available. They even said they...

  13. Suction

    LovingLife123 replied to Kathylee460's topic in General Nursing

    I’d use the longer catheters to deep suction. A yankeur isn’t going to get those deep secretions. They come in oral kits or you can use a catheter that is used for trach suctioning. I don’t...

  14. Becoming a Critical Care Nurse

    LovingLife123 replied to nurseinthemaking24's topic in Critical Care

    CCRN requires about 1500 hours and one year of critical care experience. You cannot get ACLS until you are an RN as the mega code part of it requires the simulation of you pushing meds which you are...

  15. PLEASE HELP! I am prohibited to practice because of a speeding ticket 5 years ago. What should I do?

    LovingLife123 replied to Pairmyhair's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Why did you get arrested for 30mph over the speed limit? There’s more to this. Also, you don’t “forget” that these things happen. At least admit you knowingly lied to the BON thinking it...

  16. Cannabis nurse certification?

    LovingLife123 replied to Harley Rn's topic in General Nursing

    This doesn’t seem to be a job for an RN. This seems to be a job for a pharmacist. I could see a cannabis pharmacist, but not an RN. Maybe research? That could be the only thing I would

  17. Weekend package

    LovingLife123 replied to SassyScrubs22's topic in General Nursing

    I would totally do it if my youngest was my only child. With my other boys, we are at some type of sporting event every weekend. But the money is

  18. Why do so many cheerleaders enter nursing?

    LovingLife123 replied to RitzyCinnamonRoll's topic in General Nursing

    Wasn’t a cheerleader. I’m not sure why you think all cheerleaders become nurses. Most of my ex-classmates that were cheerleaders are not

  19. Could Covid 19 actually save lives by reducing all cause mortality?

    LovingLife123 replied to myoglobin's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I think as we are going into Spring time with warmer temps it will die out here soon. I'm honestly most disturbed that people don’t normally wash their hands and disinfect surfaces. I already...

  20. Critical care Q

    LovingLife123 replied to hellohobbit's topic in General Nursing

    If it’s a trauma was a FAST exam done? If there’s abdominal pain there’s probably some type of bleeding. I’m also guessing rib fractures which would explain your respiratory issues. A Hgb of...

  21. Calling all nurses, do not get scammed by this phone call.

    LovingLife123 replied to Julie's topic in General Nursing

    I never answer any number I don’t know. If it’s important, they can leave a

  22. Use of Bedside Supply Carts

    LovingLife123 replied to NCline9's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, that was tried with us. Telling us we had to get rid of all supplies in the cabinets if the patient was in isolation. That got shot down immediately by us. The content in those packages is...

  23. Use of Bedside Supply Carts

    LovingLife123 replied to NCline9's topic in General Nursing

    Do you not keep supplies in the room? Is each room devoid of basic

  24. Adenosine used as diagnostic on Med/Surg floor?

    LovingLife123 replied to michiemikala's topic in General Nursing

    I thought when pushing Adenosine they had to have the pads on them. Our floor nurses are not ACLS certified to my knowledge. They can if they want to be, but it’s not required like in the

  25. Threw out back, what’s next?

    LovingLife123 replied to Lightning Rose's topic in General Nursing

    Chiropractors make their money by having you come back over and over and over with phony diagnosis. And there is the vertebral dissections that they